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Title: Massachusetts Building Permits

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Dates

  • Issued: 2001-07
  • Coverage: 1999

Summary

This datalayer is a polygon coverage of town outlines and building permit data for Massachusetts. This layer was derived from the Massachusetts Electronic Atlas database published by the Harvard Map Collection in 2001. The Massachusetts Electronic Atlas (MEA) was a collaborative project to provides access, via the Internet, to data about the Commonwealth, its thirteen regional planning agency districts and 351 cities and towns. This dataset is now only available via The Harvard Geospatial Library.

Subjects

  • Society
  • Structure
  • Massachusetts
  • Building permits
  • City planning
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-73.50824, -69.927802, 42.886818, 41.237962)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-73.50824, -69.927802, 42.886818, 41.237962)

Provider

Harvard

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

Harvard Map Collection, U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Massachusetts Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Massachusetts, Massachusetts Office of Geographic and Environmental Information (MassGIS). Massachusetts Building Permits. Polygon data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-meabldg99

Format

Shapefile